Neither Ready Nor Present To Hand

"Neither Ready Nor Present To Hand" (2012) is a work by Cheryl Field.

Part prop, part fictional-function, part
biology, part whimsy; by dislocating something as human as
a finger it shifts the Heideggerian tool-state
of the object from being ‘present-to-hand’ to ‘ready-to-hand’ which for
a finger is, frankly, next-to-useless. After all we’d need
more fingers in order to activate (and wind-up) the
tool-finger. It is a tool no more, but an object
never-the-less. By liberating it, it withdraws from us and
leads a life independent of our anthropocentric
perception.